Black Lives Matter In The ER: Black Kids With Appendicitis Undertreated With...
(AP Photo/Gerry Broome, File) David Kroll, FORBES (Forbes) – Black children were more than half as likely as white children to be given opioid pain medicine when arriving in U.S. emergency...
View ArticleThe Study Examines Caffeine, Daylight Effect on Circadian Rhythm
In this photo taken Wednesday, March 4, 2015 John Rogers displays freshly roasted coffee at the Rogers Family Company in Lincoln, Calif. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli) Silvia Hernandez, PIONEER NEWS...
View ArticleThings to Know About the Flu Shot: Lots of Options This Year
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Tom Frieden, right, laughs as he receives a flu shot from nurse B.K. Morris during an event about flu vaccinations, Thursday, Sept. 17, 2015, at...
View ArticleAnother Food Fight? Congress Mulls School Meal Standards
In this Oct. 14, 2014 file photo, first lady Michelle Obama and a student look over their plates as they eat lunch in the East Room of the White House in Washington following the annual fall harvest of...
View ArticleHealth Care Prices Vary Wildly: What Can You Do?
(Photo credit: The All-Nite Images/Flickr/CC) Laura Ungar and Jayne O’Donnell, USA TODAY (USA Today) – It’s a frustrating reality of the medical marketplace: Prices are all over the map. If you...
View ArticleClinton Plan to Reduce Drug Costs Gets Shrugs from Industry
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks during a community forum on healthcare, Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2015, at Moulton Elementary School in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie...
View ArticleExercising and Eating Well For Diabetes
(AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh) (CNN) – When you’re first diagnosed with diabetes, you may feel like your life has been turned upside down. I know I did. But I’ve learned to manage diabetes with help from simple...
View ArticleAP Investigation: Bungling by UN Agency Hurt Ebola Response
In this Monday, Aug. 10, 2015 photo, Juma Musa describes how he once opened a batch of ineffective chlorine powder that had expired a year earlier, during an interview at the government hospital in...
View ArticleStraight Black Men Sidelined in AIDS Fight
Justin Wooley, a consultant with the Black AIDS Institute, speaks during a session on raising awareness about PrEP among heterosexual Black males at the Institute’s annual PrEP summit in Washington,...
View ArticleSurprise! Your Medicare Part B Premiums May Increase by 50 Percent in 2016
A senior citizen is pictured receiving medical care. (AP Photo) (PBS) Editor’s Note: Journalist Philip Moeller, who writes widely on health and retirement, is here to provide the Medicare answers you...
View ArticleU.S. Targets Four States in Effort to Enroll the Uninsured
In this Nov. 17, 2014 file photo, Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell speaks at Florida International University College of Law in Miami. Burwell says health law sign-ups are off to an...
View ArticleStudy Shows Employers Shifting More Medical Costs to Workers
This 2009 photo provided by the Kaiser Family Foundation shows CEO Drew Altman. Most companies now offer health coverage that requires employees to pay an annual deductible before insurance kicks in,...
View ArticleMost Americans Will Get a Wrong or Late Diagnosis At Least Once in Their Lives
(Ilmicrofono Oggiono/Flickr/CC By 2.0) (The Washington Post) – Most Americans who go to the doctor will get a diagnosis that is wrong or late at least once in their lives, sometimes with terrible...
View ArticleDepression Could Perhaps be Sleep Apnea, Says Study
(University Herald) – A new research study has shown that many people who think they are depressed might actually be suffering from obstructive sleep apnea or OSA, Times gazette reports. David...
View ArticleSexting Case Highlights Quandary Over Child Porn Laws
JONATHAN DREW, Associated Press MITCH WEISS, Associated Press FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — When authorities discovered that a high school couple had sent each other nude selfies, the two 16-year-olds...
View ArticleRape Kits Untested in Kentucky, Destroyed in North Carolina
(AP Photo) (CNN) – Two more states are now in the spotlight for failing to handle examinations in alleged rape cases. DNA from what are known as rape kits can be used to help identify suspects,...
View ArticleCornering the Market on Essential Drugs
(AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File) (Slate) – A few months ago, I treated a patient for a case of pinworm, a parasitic infestation that affects roughly 400 million people worldwide, with 40 million of those...
View ArticleAmerican Doctor Cured of Ebola Continues His Work in Liberia
In this Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2015 photo, Dr. Rick Sacra reviews patient cases with Dr. Anna Chon at the Family Health Center in downtown Worcester, Mass., where he advises doctors in training. (AP...
View ArticleBlack Patients Fare Better Than Whites when Both Get Same Healthcare, Study...
Alan Zerembo, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES (The L.A. Times) – On most health measures, blacks fare much worse than whites — differences that have largely been attributed to socioeconomic factors, access...
View ArticleWhat the Updated National HIV/AIDS Strategy Means for Black America
President Barack Obama waves to the audience after speaking ay a World AIDS Day event, Monday, Dec. 2, 2013, in the South Court Auditorium in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House...
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